Lu Xiao

880 total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 677 citations indexed

About

Lu Xiao is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Lu Xiao has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 677 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 11 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Lu Xiao's work include Urban Green Space and Health (13 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (9 papers). Lu Xiao is often cited by papers focused on Urban Green Space and Health (13 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (9 papers). Lu Xiao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Lu Xiao's co-authors include Xingyuan He, Wenjie Wang, Wei Zhou, Zhibin Ren, Yao Fu, Hongbo Zhao, Yulin Dong, Huimei Wang, Wenjie Wang and Paul‐Brian McInerney and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Science of The Total Environment and Research Policy.

In The Last Decade

Lu Xiao

30 papers receiving 670 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Increasing pesticide diversity impairs soil microbial functions
    2025 38 citations Lu Xiao, Da Lin et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

Lu Xiao
Chantal van Ham Netherlands
Athanasios Alexandru Gavrilidis Romania
Wei Hong China
Silvia Ronchi Italy
Hana Skokanová Czechia
M.L. Paracchini Italy
Ernita van Wyk South Africa
Timothy W. Foresman United States
Wilhelm Windhorst Germany
Ana Faggi Argentina
Chantal van Ham Netherlands
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Citations per year, relative to Lu Xiao Lu Xiao (= 1×) peers Chantal van Ham

Countries citing papers authored by Lu Xiao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lu Xiao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Lu Xiao. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Lu Xiao. The network helps show where Lu Xiao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lu Xiao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lu Xiao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lu Xiao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lu Xiao. Lu Xiao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Xiao, Lu, Haobin Zhang, Ayub M. O. Oduor, & Yanjie Liu. (2025). Artificial night-time lighting and herbivory interactively reduce the biomass production of invasive plants while enhancing that of native plants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2048). 20242811–20242811. 1 indexed citations
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Xiao, Lu, Da Lin, Tian-Lun Zhang, et al.. (2025). Increasing pesticide diversity impairs soil microbial functions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(2). e2419917122–e2419917122. 38 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Xue, Wenwen Liu, Lu Xiao, et al.. (2025). The application of emerging technologies for the quality and safety evaluation of oilseeds and edible oils. Food Chemistry X. 25. 102241–102241.
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Xiao, Lu, et al.. (2025). The Impact of Integrating Agriculture and Tourism on Poverty Reduction in China's Ethnic Minority Areas. Journal of International Development. 37(5). 1082–1103. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Yongchao, Shengwen Qi, Bowen Zheng, et al.. (2023). Multi-Scale Engineering Geological Zonation for Linear Projects in Mountainous Regions: A Case Study of National Highway 318 Chengdu-Shigatse Section. Remote Sensing. 15(18). 4619–4619. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Yunzhi, Zhuojun Zheng, Ping Wang, et al.. (2023). HERC2 promotes inflammation-driven cancer stemness and immune evasion in hepatocellular carcinoma by activating STAT3 pathway. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research. 42(1). 38–38. 46 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jinghua, et al.. (2023). Geo-climates and street developments shape urban tree characteristics: A street-view inventory analysis of over 200,000 trees of 11 metropolises in China. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 169503–169503. 2 indexed citations
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Xiao, Lu, et al.. (2022). Effects of urbanization on woody plant phylogenetic diversity and its associations with landscape features in the high latitude northern hemisphere region, Northeast China. The Science of The Total Environment. 838(Pt 2). 156192–156192. 11 indexed citations
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Wang, Wenjie, Jinghua Zhang, Evgenios Agathokleous, et al.. (2022). Big data-based urban greenness in Chinese megalopolises and possible contribution to air quality control. The Science of The Total Environment. 824. 153834–153834. 18 indexed citations
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Ren, Zhibin, Hongbo Zhao, Yao Fu, Lu Xiao, & Yulin Dong. (2021). Effects of urban street trees on human thermal comfort and physiological indices: a case study in Changchun city, China. Journal of Forestry Research. 33(3). 911–922. 84 indexed citations
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Xiao, Lu, et al.. (2019). Effect of Forest-fire Rehabilitation Time on Plant Diversity in Daxing'an Mountains, Northeastern China. Zhiwu yanjiu. 39(4). 514. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Wenjie, Qiong Wang, Wei Zhou, et al.. (2018). Glomalin changes in urban-rural gradients and their possible associations with forest characteristics and soil properties in Harbin City, Northeastern China. Journal of Environmental Management. 224. 225–234. 37 indexed citations
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Zhang, Bo, et al.. (2017). Shading, cooling and humidifying effects of urban forests in Harbin City and possible association with various factors.. Shengtaixue zazhi. 36(4). 951. 15 indexed citations
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Zhai, Chang, Wenjie Wang, Xingyuan He, et al.. (2017). Urbanization Drives SOC Accumulation, Its Temperature Stability and Turnover in Forests, Northeastern China. Forests. 8(4). 130–130. 34 indexed citations
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Xiao, Lu, et al.. (2015). The Reversed Brain Drain: A Mixed-method Study of the Reversed Migration of Chinese Overseas Scientists. Science Technology and Society. 20(3). 279–299. 30 indexed citations

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